Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Walter James Casper's Civility Bullshit Enables Hatred and Racism

Ann Althouse designated a full blogging tag to "civility bullshit," which any simpleton halfwit knows is the left's meme to shut down criticism and debate.

I shake my head at this, but as conservative as she may be, Dr. Gina Loudon does no favors by disclaiming how "civil" her segments are going to be. Debate (and disagreement) is in fact not "civil" by its very nature. People defend a position and get fired up, and sometimes tempers flare. But it's especially lame to indicate how civil you're going to be when engaging people who are objectively uncivil and decidedly vicious.

I elaborated the point earlier today, "#Murrieta Protesters @CassandraRules and @BeautifulChaosJ Spew Lies and Hatred, Not 'Civility'." The two Murrieta women had a posse of hate-breathing racists at the ready. Racist and foul-mouthed, these are the last kind of people to lend the benefit of the doubt.


I think "Cassandra" responded as soon as I tweeted the post, and I dutifully engaged her and her hateful followers for some time. And boy, she's got some vile, genuinely demonic followers: leftist anti-colonialists spouting anti-nation-state excuses for anti-Zionist Jew-hatred; Israel-bashers cravenly and stupidly claiming to hate Israel is not anti-Semitic; anarchists with "V for Vendetta" avatars spewing sick disgusting venom and anti-Semitism; and 9/11 truthers blaming Israel for September 11.

I had hundreds of tweets polluting my mentions. Here's just one example of the disgusting effluence:


And for the life of me, I could have sworn Walter James Casper tucked tail last January when Robert Stacy McCain administered the smackdown of a lifetime, "Portrait of a Stalker Troll: @Repsac3, Also Known as Walter James Casper III."

But I guess not. I reported the other day that he's once again stalking my blog, "Stalking Hate-Troll Repsac3: Still Stalking. Still Hatin'. Still Trolling."

And like he did with Tara Dublin and various others, hateful Repsac3 trolled my Twitter conversations today, spewing his civility bullshit:



As longtime readers recall oh so well, Walter James Casper's a despicable leftist troll, a vile scum-sucking racist, and a longtime Jew-hating OWS-backing anti-Semite. I thought he'd hit bottom, but he's like a pig in the slop. He's invigorated when boosting the most reprehensible people, whether it's KKK-style racists, far-left anti-Israel ghouls, and now Aztlán open-borders Nazis and their pro-"Palestinian" eliminationist supporters online.

As always, block, ban and report the f-ker. I've never encountered such obsessive evil in my life.

Pedro Alberto Monterroso-Navas, Criminal Alien Released by Obama, Arrested for Murder, Kidnapping in Texas

But, but, but .... it's "it's for the children!!!"



#Murrieta Protesters @CassandraRules and @BeautifulChaosJ Spew Lies and Hatred, Not 'Civility'

I introduced myself to Dr. Gina Loudon at the Murrieta protest on July 7th. She graciously posed for a picture.

She's a beautiful woman with a good heart:



It turns's out Dr. Gina interviewed two of the Murrieta protesters who the police had to separate, along with their La Raza cohorts, from the few patriots gathered in front of the police command station. Her show is "Smart Life with Dr. Gina" on the Money Business Life Network. At the clip she speaks to "Cassandra" and "Jordyan Carroll," the latter of whom I spoke to very politely during the protest, suggesting that her protest sign was wrong and the land wasn't "stolen from" the Native Americans:



I commend Dr. Gina for seeking to achieve some sense of civility amid all the partisan debates. The problem is that the reason there's not much civility is because Americans are so divided on the issues. "Cassandra" and "Jordyan" are just as partisan and nasty as anyone else out there protesting. I know from experience, from having engaged them face-to-face. Unfortunately, Dr. Gina doesn't press these women hard on what their protests were really all about. Their stance is certainly not about "helping children." The overwhelming majority of Americans would jump at the chance to help an abandoned child (as "Cassandra" tries to portray the issue). Dr. Gina could have followed up with, "Okay, we all want to help children, but why are you protesting with a racist, separatist group of Hispanic supremacists who reject assimilation and the American ideal?" She doesn't ask that, so intent is she on blabbering about how much "agreement" there is between the two sides.

Actually, there's not much agreement beyond agreeing to talk nice. Dr. Gina could have further asked "What is your bottom line on the Central American immigrants? Do you support sealing the border and deporting the illegal migrants, which is what conservatives want"? "Cassandra" and "Jordyan" would have probably dropped the mask of civility and called Dr. Gina a racist.

Recall that Victoria Taft took a photo of the woman (a friend of "Jordyan"), who literally got in my face screaming "You're talking to my best friend!" Well, "Jordyan" sure didn't call off her "best friend" attack dog, and neither did "Cassandra," who you can see at the picture with her gold iPhone at center, either taking pictures or video of the confrontation.







Note too that when I spoke to "Jordyan" she claimed she "wasn't a leftist," but that's a lie if one is to peruse the postings at her Twitter page, where we see her recent tweets expressing solidarity with Palestine. She even re-tweeted tweets blaming George W. Bush for the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq.

And the same at "Cassandra's" page as well. She's got a stream of tweets attacking the Israelis as terrorists and oppressors:



So obviously, Dr. Gina missed a real opportunity with these two. She needed to direct some pointed questions at them to evoke some real sense of what they stand for, which, as we can see, is racist La Raza separatism and pro-Palestinian racist, Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism. All this talk about "civility" is bullshit cover for their ideological hatred and racist division.


Surge of Outrage as Public Blasts Illegal Immigration as Nation's Top Problem — #BorderInvasion

At Gallup, "One in Six Say Immigration Most Important U.S. Problem."

And at KGBT Action 4 News Harlingen, "Americans say immigration is now a top problem, per poll."

VIDEO: Feds to House Illegal Aliens at Posh Palm Aire Hotel and Suites in Weslaco, Texas

A continuing complaint we've seen with the protesters against the alien invasion is the amount of resources being expended by the Obama administration, especially given the unmet needs of various constituencies of American citizens, like veterans and the homeless.

And now we're going to start shipping illegal alien criminals to luxury resorts?

At Gateway Pundit, "FEDS TO OPEN $50 MILLION RESORT FOR ILLEGAL CHILDREN – Complete With Tennis Courts, Sauna & Pools."

Following the links takes us to KRGV ABC-TV Brownsville, "Hotel to Undergo Transformation into Immigrant Center":

WESLACO - A center for unaccompanied minors set to open in Weslaco later this year will be the first of its kind in the nation, officials with a network of non-profits said.

BCFS Health and Human Services secured a multi-million federal contract to house young illegal immigrants at the site of the current Palm Aire Hotel and Suites on FM 1015.

Representatives with BCFS said the Palm Aire will undergo a multi-million dollar transformation. BCFS runs a temporary detention center for young illegal immigrants at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

BCFS began as an orphanage for Hispanic children in San Antonio in 1944 "Children ... who weren't able to go into other orphanages. They weren't allowed at the white orphanages, they weren't allowed at the African-American orphanages," said Krista Piferrer, with BCFS external affairs.

The agency has grown into a multi-national network of health and human service non-profit organizations.

"We lead efforts that range from emergency management and disaster response to serving teens and youths who are aging out of the foster care system to serving impoverished communities and expectant mothers in the colonias," Piferrer said.

BCFS said the Weslaco facility will be completely self-contained.
Yes, I'm sure it'll be nice.

Would that America's most vulnerable citizens were getting such lavish accommodations and favoritism.

Indeed, as noted at Gateway Pundit, BCFS will be including "medical and mental health care, on-site educational programs, recreational programs and case management."

Sweet, if you can get it.

It's Not 'Unaccompanied Minors': McAllen Border Station Flooded with 1000s of Adult Illegal Alien Criminals

It's all you hear from the lawbreaking, criminal-coddling open-borders left: "It's for the children!"

Well, turns out there's very few children among the illegal immigrants continuing to surge over our Southern border.

Here's the Washington Post concern trolling yesterday for "child migrants" from Honduras, "traveling 1,400 miles with hardly any luggage from a bus station controlled by an extortion ring and used for trafficking women and contraband cigarettes."



Oh sure, some kids have come, many unaccompanied, but what the open-borders left isn't telling you is that children are now just a tiny proportion of the illegal immigrant invasion.

According to this report from Ashly Custer, at KGBT Action 4 News Harlingen, over a thousand illegal aliens are currently being processed daily at the McAllen Border Patrol station, but hardly any of them children. Indeed, as this report indicates, on the high end, McAllen gets as many as 1,300 illegals daily, but just six children were being processed there in the last 72 hours, a tiny fraction.

See, "Inside look of McAllen Border Patrol Station":


Border Patrol's RGV Sector Division Chief Robert Duff walked us through the center explaining how immigrants are typically processed.

Tuesday, the facility was holding an estimated 350 immigrants, which is just under its maximum capacity.

The center has 10 concrete holding cells and five additional cells for isolation. Immigrants are separated based on age and gender.

Duff said that on a good day, 1,300 people can be processed in 24 hours, which is a significant increase from past years.

Border Patrol told Action 4 News the goal is to process immigrants as quickly as possible because this is a temporary facility with no showers.

We asked about the processing times for minors and were told the average time is currently 21 hours, and there are only six kids in custody that have been processed for over 72 hours.

In June, that number was much greater.
Yeah, well, adult illegal alien criminals are getting in on the amnesty action, and the criminal-coddling Democrats are ready to throw the borders wide open to them. At Twitchy, "Rep. John Lewis declares his support for unfettered borders: ‘Our doors are open’."



Yes, the "dignity and worth" of Honduran Mara Salvatrucha murderers.

Mayor Eric Garcetti Takes Obama's Illegal Alien 'Travel Cash' to House Border Jumpers in Los Angeles

The city was contacted by the Obama administration, and Garcetti, who's already a craven open-borders opportunist and tribalist, jumped on the chance to rake in HHS illegal alien "travel cash."

At the Los Angeles Times, "Garcetti says L.A. will shelter children who have crossed border":

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Tuesday that the city would help shelter immigrant children who have been detained after crossing the border and has begun talks with a federal agency about doing so.

"Before you get partisan, before you tell me where you are on immigration—these are children," Garcetti said Tuesday at a forum hosted downtown by Politico magazine.

"As a father, who are we as Americans if we don't step forward first and say, these kids who are isolated, alone … let's get them someplace safe and secure," the mayor told the crowd. Garcetti said the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services has contacted the city, but he had few details Tuesday about what accommodating the children would entail or when it would occur.

Federal money would flow to pay for legal representation and temporary shelter, while local nonprofits are expected to help find homes for the children, he said.

Garcetti added that the city would also be an appropriate place to reunite many of the children with their families as their legal situation is worked out, because many of their parents are probably in the Los Angeles area.

Garcetti spokeswoman Vicki Curry later said the city's Office of Immigrant Affairs convened a meeting on Friday with officials from the Health and Human Services Department and representatives of local organizations that work with immigrants and the homeless.
Also at Breitbart, "L.A. MAYOR GARCETTI WELCOMES ILLEGAL ALIENS, UPSETS HOMELESS ACTIVISTS."

Yeah, because illegals are bigger "victims" than L.A.'s homeless population.

Illegal Alien Jose Antonio Vargas: The Face of Leftist Lawbreaking and Entitlement

Vargas is the master illegal alien con artist.

The CBS News video provides mainstream media cover.

But Michelle Malkin breaks open the leftist lies, "Jose Antonio Vargas: The face of the entitled illegal alien":

An illegal-alien Icarus, Vargas had been riding high after movie theaters and CNN aired his biographical, pro-illegal immigration documentary.

His amnesty activism is backed by the progressive Tides Center, a project of George Soros and former ACORN chief organizer Drummond Pike. To his elite friends in the no-borders industry, he’s a “hero.”

Journalists, celebrities and politicians immediately swallowed the propaganda bait, rallying to their privileged pal’s side. “#DontDeportJose,” they all cried in an orchestrated Twitter campaign.

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of law-abiding people from around the world are waiting patiently for their backlogged visa and green card applications to be reviewed.

Vargas’ outraged reporter friends don’t have much sympathy for those would-be Americans. Or for the Americans who’ve dedicated their lives to protecting homeland security and upholding our laws. Vargas’ enablers jumped to condemn the CBP employees in McAllen for doing their jobs and demanded that he be freed from “unfair” and “out of hand” detention, as one hysterical Roll Call reporter put it.

Unfair and out of hand?

As I’ve noted previously, Vargas came here from the Philippines as a child, but knowingly broke multiple laws as an adult in order to stay in the country. After being supplied with a fake passport with a fake name, a fake green card and a bogus Social Security number, he committed perjury repeatedly on federal I-9 employment eligibility forms. In 2002, while pursuing his journalism career goals, an immigration lawyer told him he needed to accept the consequences of his law-breaking and return to his native Philippines. He ignored the counsel and instead used a friend’s address to obtain an Oregon driver’s license under false pretenses. It gave him an eight-year golden ticket to travel by car, board trains and airplanes, work at prestigious newspapers, and even gain access to the White House — where crack Secret Service agents allowed him to attend a state dinner using his bogus Social Security number.

The Vargas stunt will backfire because it is a smug and emblematic middle finger to everyone outside the D.C.-Manhattan bubble who believes in following the rules. As legal immigrant Asoka Samarasinghe wrote to me on Monday, “Michelle, this guy is a slap to the face of all us legal immigrants and citizens.”

As for “due process,” celebrity illegal alien Vargas will undoubtedly get more bites at the immigration court and federal appeals apple than law-abiding citizens will ever enjoy (see Zeituni Onyango).

But the sob-story violins play on. Democratic New York Mayor Bill de Blasio sanctimoniously tweeted Monday afternoon: “I stand in solidarity with journalist and advocate (Vargas). He exemplifies what America is about.”

Only if “America” means protecting leftist law-breakers from the consequences of their reckless, arrogant actions.
And don't miss this, from Michelle previously, "“Undocumented” folly: A liberal reporter’s illegal alien sob story."

Oracle, Arizona, Sees No Illegal Alien Buses, for Now

At the Arizona Republic, "Babeu keeps peace but buses with migrant kids a no-show":




The protest over immigrant children coming to Pinal County fizzled Tuesday afternoon after their buses failed to show.

A congressional source confirmed that the buses were not coming.

The buses were supposed to deliver between 40 and 60 children who were caught crossing into the U.S. illegally to the Sycamore Canyon Academy, a boys ranch in the Catalina Mountains, near Oracle, according to the Pinal County Sheriff's Department.

There was no word on alternate plans for the children. Protesters and supporters began gathering early Tuesday morning for an expected confrontation. But there was only a brief skirmish between the groups, which have differing views on how the U.S. should deal with the surge of immigrant children from Central America who have crossed the border alone.

At one point, a few supporters of the immigrant children ventured toward the protesters, who had gathered a couple of miles away on Mount Lemmon highway. The protesters responded by shouting, "Commies!"

But there was nothing like the heated confrontations between similar groups in Murrieta, Calif., earlier this month.
Also at the Arizona Daily Star, "Immigration tension boils over in Oracle."

'Which feminism are you talking about?...'

Another must-read excursion into the bizarre world of radical feminism (and lesbianism), at the Other McCain, "Sex Trouble: Radical Feminism and the Long Shadow of the ‘Lavender Menace’":
Many women who today identify themselves as feminists have never examined the history of these conflicts and are unfamiliar with the militant personalities and radical ideologies that have influenced feminism for the past half-century. When confronted with the extremist rhetoric of feminists — vehement denunciation of males, condemnation of heterosexuality, claims that men (collectively) oppress and victimize women (collectively) in ways comparable to the Holocaust — the average woman is understandably startled and, if she thinks of herself as a feminist, she quickly shifts into denial mode. The anti-male passage you’ve just quoted to her is an aberration, an anomaly, an expression of fringe beliefs that does not represent the feminism that she endorses. She is not a Marxist, she is not a lesbian or a man-hater, she is not the kind of pro-abortion fanatic who views motherhood as male-imposed tyranny. The question thus arises: Is she actually a feminist?
Keep reading.


Dr. Gina Loudon: Top 10 Things I Learned From #Murrieta Protesters

I took Dr. Gina to task for naively privileging "civility" over feet-to-the-fire hosting, so it's only fair for readers to get her take on things in the first person, at World Net Daily.



PREVIOUSLY: "#Murrieta Protesters @CassandraRules and @BeautifulChaosJ Spew Lies and Hatred, Not 'Civility'," and "Walter James Casper's Civility Bullshit Enables Hatred and Racism."

The GOP's Dicey Prospect for Senate Takeover in November

I'm extremely bullish on GOP prospects in November, especially with the national political environment so heavily anti-incumbent and when President Obama continues to be an anchor weighing down Democrat chances.

That said, careful state-by-state analyses show it's going to be hard fought all the way. Stuart Rothenberg's got one of the best pieces I've read in awhile. See, "Fight for the Senate Still Very Much Up in the Air."

Also, an interesting take at the Minority Report, "Good News! Colorado, Iowa Shift Toward GOP."

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Hypocrite Open-Borders Democrat Martin O'Malley Won't Take Illegals in Home State of Maryland

It's Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who's being touted for his "compassion" on immigration by lamestream media outlets. At Politico, for example, "Martin O’Malley: Don’t send kids to ‘certain death’."

And at Katrina vanden Heuval's far-left, The Nation, "Martin O’Malley’s Right: The Immigration Debate Must Respect ‘Essential Human Dignity’."

But, make sure you're sitting down, now O'Malley's begging the Obama White House not to ship busloads of dangerous and diseased illegals to Maryland.

At CNN, "First on CNN: After criticizing White House over unaccompanied minors, Martin O'Malley said don't send them to Maryland site":

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(CNN) - After his strong criticism of the Obama administration's plans to return thousands of young undocumented migrants back to Central America, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked a top White House official that the children not be sent to a site that was under consideration in his home state, sources familiar with the conversation said.

"He privately said 'please don't send these kids to Western Maryland,'" a Democratic source told CNN. The heated discussion between O'Malley and White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz occurred during a phone call late Friday evening, sources familiar with the conversation added.

A potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, O'Malley surprised some in his party when he sharply criticized a White House proposal to give new legal authorities to the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the deportation of the unaccompanied minors and their families.

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” O’Malley said last week at a National Governors Association meeting in Nashville....

Instead, the governor urged the administration to show compassion toward the children, describing some of the facilities where the young detainees are being kept as "kennels."

“Through all of the great world religions we are told that hospitality to strangers is an essential human dignity,” O’Malley said.

Hours after making those remarks, O'Malley expressed concerns to Munoz about a proposal under consideration by the Department of Health and Human Services to convert a former Army Reserve Center in Westminster, Maryland to house the children.

A senior O'Malley administration official confirmed the conversation took place. But the official stressed O'Malley did not reject the idea of temporarily housing some of the children in other parts of the state. "Governor O’Malley and his administration are working cooperatively with federal officials to find suitable locations in Maryland for unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America," said O'Malley press secretary Nina Smith. "As he has said repeatedly, he believes the priority should be placing children with family members and–if that’s not possible–locating housing that is safe, humane, and non-restrictive," she added.

The HHS plan stirred up outrage among local elected officials in Maryland, including Rep. Andy Harris, R-Maryland, whose office cited "potential health risks" to the surrounding community. "Flying them to Maryland only to turn around and fly them back home is nonsensical.

Instead, President Obama should immediately return them to their nation of origin," Harris said in a statement.

HHS has since scuttled the plan for the Western Maryland site, an O'Malley official said.
There you go.

You name it, from "climate change" to immigration to just about anything else, so-called "compassionate" leftists are the biggest freakin' hypocrites.

'The President has appointed himself Coyote-in-Chief, express-tracking illegal immigrants from the shores of the Rio Grande deep into the country...'

A fabulous piece, from Mark Steyn, "We Are All Border States Now."

Shawn Moran, V.P. of National Border Patrol Council: Illegal Immigrant 'Children' Include MS-13 Gang Members

At Free Beacon, "Border Crisis: Illegal Immigrant ‘Children’ Include MS-13 Gang Members; Expert: MS-13 Recruiting Inside Immigration Facilities."



And from last night, "VIDEO: Border Patrol Uncovers Massive MS-13 Gang Recruiting at Alien Detention Center in Nogales, Arizona."


Oracle, Arizona, Repels Obama Administration's Illegal Alien Onslaught — #BorderInvasion

AP's Astrid Galván reports, at KSAZ-TV FOX 10 News Phoenix, "Immigrants will not be bused to Ariz. town":




ORACLE, Ariz. (AP) - Protesters carrying "Return to Sender" and "Go home non-Yankees" signs faced off with immigrant rights activists Tuesday in a small Arizona town after a sheriff said a bus filled with Central American children was on its way.

The rallies demonstrated the deep divide of the immigration debate as groups on both sides - and in similar numbers - showed up in Oracle to speak out on the issue.

It turned heated at times, with shouting matches and a group of mariachi musicians getting shoved before the skirmishes were quelled.

Anger has been spreading in the town of Oracle since Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu warned residents last week that immigrant children from Central America caught crossing the border illegally would be placed at the Sycamore Canyon Academy in Oracle. Protesters were hoping to mirror demonstrations in Murrieta, California, when immigrants were taken there recently.

"We are not going to tolerate illegals forced upon us," protester Loren Woods said.

Babeu is credited with stirring up the anti-immigrant protesters via social media postings and a press release Monday and by leaking information about the migrants' arrival to a local activist.

He addressed both sides of the protesters, asking them to remain civil, abide by the law and keep the roads cleared. Immigrant rights activists questioned Babeu about why he is stirring up protesters when he should be bringing order as the county's top lawman.

Babeu said he was simply informing the public and was at the site to make sure the protests on both sides were peaceful.

"All this was done in secrecy, and that's where a lot of people are upset," Babeu said Tuesday. "My concern (is) where's the federal government? Why are they not here? Why did they not hold a town hall to answer some of these questions?"
Well, yeah: "Sheriff Paul Babeu Slams Obama Administration: 'Nobody Has Talked to Us' About Shipping Dangerous Aliens to Arizona."

More here.

Sheriff Paul Babeu Slams Obama Administration: 'Nobody Has Talked to Us' About Shipping Dangerous Aliens to Arizona

Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu has moved patriot protesters off the roads, keeping the lanes clear for the expected busloads today in Oracle, Arizona.

See the Arizona Republic, "Sheriff Babeu says he asks immigration protesters in Oracle to not block road."

Some reports on Twitter are claiming no buses will be sent today, citing Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick. But I don't see anything on that from Representative Kirkpatrick at her Twitter page.

Meanwhile, here's Sheriff Babeu today slamming the federal government, saying he's received no advance notice from Homeland Security (or anyone else) on shipments of illegals to Pinal County:



PREVIOUSLY: "Backlash! Local Communities Fight Federal Government's Flood of Illegal Aliens — #BorderInvasion," and "Immigration Backlash in Oracle, Arizona! Patriots Protest Feds' Open-Borders Tyranny!"

Report: Busload of Illegal Immigrants Shop with Food Stamp EBTs in China Grove, North Carolina

So far it's just this one report at the video, via Breitbart, "Illegal Immigrants Shop at Walmart With Food Stamp Cards."

Watch it at the link. I'll update with additional corroborating information when it becomes available.

Meanwhile, earlier mainstream media reports indicate that the USDA advertises benefits for illegal aliens. At CBS News Washington, D.C., "Watchdog Report: USDA Promoting Food Stamp Benefits to Illegal Immigrants." And following the links, here's Judicial Watch, "Watchdog Report: USDA Promoting Food Stamp Benefits to Illegal Immigrants."

Plus, at Fox News last year, "Illegal Immigrant Mother of Seven Given Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, and Social Security," and "No Citizenship? No Problem! - USDA Promotes Food Stamps to Illegals - Wake Up America - Stuart Varney."

Jose Antonio Vargas, Celebrity Illegal Alien, Detained by Border Patrol in McAllen, Texas

Maybe they'll deport the f-ker.

At the Dallas Morning News, "Jose Antonio Vargas detained at McAllen airport."



Immigration Backlash in Oracle, Arizona! Patriots Protest Feds' Open-Borders Tyranny!

Wow, the Murrieta model shifts to Oracle, Arizona.

At the Arizona Republic, "Protesters in Oracle inspired by Murrieta":




Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has played a key role in dueling protests planned for today in Oracle over the arrival of Central American immigrant children at a youth ranch — a position that has left the sheriff's critics and supporters at odds over whether he is inciting unrest or simply sharing information.

Last week, Babeu, a strong border-security proponent, mentioned that the displaced children were coming to Oracle as he promoted the candidacy of Christine Jones for governor. He later told political supporters and advocates of stricter immigration enforcement the exact location of the juvenile detention center where the displaced children will be temporarily housed.

Until then, a detention center for wayward youths in the Catalina Mountains called the Sycamore Canyon Academy had been a secret. The Sheriff's Office learned of the location from "whistle-blowers" within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Babeu's spokesman said in a news release Monday.

"We already have our hands full fighting the drug cartels and human smugglers. We don't need unaccompanied juveniles from Central America being flown into Arizona, compliments of President Obama," Babeu said in the statement. "Local residents have every right to be upset and to protest."

Babeu is deploying an unknown number of deputies to the site in southern Pinal County. The ranch has taken on extra staff in preparation for the children, who are described by people on one side of the immigration debate as refugees and and on the other as illegal immigrants.

Both sides will be in Oracle today. From 50 to 300 protestors are expected, Sheriff's Office Director of Administration Tim Gaffney said. No group asked for a permit, and they will be prevented from blocking roads, he said.

The planned Oracle protests could be a repeat of a recent showdown in the Southern California town of Murrieta, an inspiration to activists such as Robert Skiba. "We're going to stop it if we can," Skiba said.

"We will take all peaceful means necessary to stop the buses from entering this place."

Protesters in Murrieta, a city of 107,000 about 60 miles west of Palm Springs, thrust the community into the national spotlight earlier this month when demonstrators blocked buses carrying recent immigrants to be processed at a Border Patrol facility there. Another round of buses slated to arrive in the city on July 4 was rerouted, but dozens of people on both sides protested anyway. Six were arrested.

Skiba, a Babeu supporter, said he first learned of the transfer of children from Babeu at a National Rifle Association luncheon last week.

Alicia Bristow, another protest organizer, told allies in an e-mail Monday: "I spoke with Paul B. yesterday and he said the only way to stop this was for our community and the area to organize; and to contact our congressional members to tell them to stop this ludicrous dumping of illegals all over the country and especially, Pinal County."