FoxNews.com is reporting that former North Adams resident and current sheriff in Pinal County, Ariz., Paul Babeu has received death threats from Mexican mafia and drug cartel members.
According to the report, Babeu has been "very outspoken" about the need to secure Arizona's border with Mexico – a known entry point to the U.S. for drug smugglers and illegal immigrant traffickers – and supports the state's recently passed Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (also known as SB 1070), which makes illegal immigration a state crime. The law will go into effect July 29.
SB 1070 requires law enforcement officers to determine the immigration status of a person during any investigation as long as police have "reasonable suspicion" that the person is living in the country illegally.
Other provisions of the new law make it a misdemeanor to pick up a person on any Arizona roadway with intent to employ or transport them. Illegal residents who apply for employment will also be charged with a misdemeanor.
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i am from Chandler AZ about 15 miles from Pinal County. I grew up in CT and we vacation in the Berkshires every summer - but the situation is out of control and we don't need immigration reform - we just need to control the borders. before this great man and my friend Paul Babeu gets killed.
The illegal immigration issue is not about human or civil rights… It’s about a nation’s right and the rights of that nation's citizenry to control its own border as well as its FUNDAMENTAL NEED to know exactly who is coming in and what they are bringing with them. This is a very basic national security requirement. Without an effective immigration policy (which we already have but do not enforce) and more importantly, actual, REAL enforcement of that policy, the basic security of any nation is at risk, both economically and in terms of safety. Truthfully, it's that simple! Don't let slippery politicians cloud the issue with vagaries and finger pointing! The responsibility for the negative impact of illegl immigration lies squarely on their shoulders... PERIOD!
When considering national security and the current atmosphere of terror that the US government is constantly pushing down our throats and thereby using as a political vehicle to frighten the masses into adopting (accepting) radical legislation that in the end, has likely only resulted in the further erosion of our individual constitutional freedoms and hasn't really done much to thwart ANY actual threats to our safety, demonstrated by the FACT that hundreds of thousands (at least) of ILLEGAL immigrants continue to flow across the southern US boarder annually, completely unchecked, packing drugs and what-have-you (potentially explosives and other WMD - why not?), we must EQUALLY measure the historic impact and ongoing threat that ILLEGAL immigration brings, not only to the nation's and individual states' ecomic stability in terms of the REAL costs of education, healthcare, welfare, food-stamps, crime, imprisonment, deportation and scores of others, but PERHAPS MORE IMPOTANT THAN ALL OF THIS is the continued assault and devastation on America's already beleaguered job market and the individual economic security of our countrymen... Legal, American Citizens!
There are so many Americans that have been unable to find work for months and months across the spectrum, from the highly skilled technical sectors to the mid and lower-skilled labor positions and with the forthcoming "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" being proposed, our president and legislators are once again, trying to force Americans to surrender what remains of our individual economic security (and that of our children) and hand over the few available jobs in the labor market to skilled Indians and Chinese illegal (and legal) immigrants as well as the unskilled. America and her country-men and women simply can not afford to continue bearing the burden of various other nations exporting their poverty and crime-stricken population. Those nations NOW need to be responsible for cleaning up their own mess!!!!
It's time for all Americans to stand and fight and bring ALL that we have to bear against the pressures and powers (corporate sponsored, elitist regimes with vast monetary resources) that continue to manipulate the legislative bodies for the sole purpose of benefiting the corporate-american-police-state while driving out the middle class in America!
Right now our national and economic security is and has been exposed and enormously impacted for decades due to a blatant and willful failure of the federal government to enforce our EXISTING immigration laws. The NATIONAL SECURITY AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE BASIC ECONOMIC SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT RISK!
THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES NEED TO TAKE A STAND AND FORCE THEIR GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE - AND SUPPORT THE ENFORCEMENT OF OUR LAWS AND WORK WITH THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS (NOT AGAINST THEM) TO ENSURE THE SAFETY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY OF OUR NATION AND ITS PEOPLE!!!!
WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO DEMAND THAT OUR FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS PUBLISH ACCURATE AND TRUTHFUL NUMBERS REFLECTING THE TRUE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. IF AMERICAN CITIZENS HAD ANY REAL IDEA OF THE ACTUAL COST IN TERMS OF NEGATIVE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT, THEY WOULD LIKELY REVOLT AGAINST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
FORGET ABOUT AL QUEDA!!! ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS THE MOST REAL AND CURRENT THREAT TO THE NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!!!!!
LIVE IT!!! LEARN IT!!! REPEAT IT!!!!! TAKE IT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND OUT INTO THE STREETS IF NEED BE!!!! GET OFF YOUR LAZY BUTTS AND STOP THIS ECONOMIC TERROR NOW!!!!!! I'TS UP TO YOU TO HELP PROTECT AND SECURE YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE!!
THE FLOOD-GATES OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO REMAIN OPEN FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ONLY…
IN-SOURCING – TO ACCOMODATE THE CORPORATE-AMERICAN-POLICE-STATE IN THEIR GOALS OF SATURATING THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET WITH CHEAP LABOR, FORCING AMERICAN CITEZENS TO COMPETE WITH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF MEXICO’S (INDIA'S, CHINA'S & OTHERS) IMPOVERISHED, CAUSING DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON AMERICAN WAGES AND SOCIALIZING (SPREADING) THE COST OF THEIR HEALTHCARE & EDUCATION BY PASSING THE BURDEN ON TO THE BACKS OF TAX PAYERS!!!! ITâ€S TIME TO SHOUT-DOWN YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND YOUR PRESIDENT AND EXPOSE THE TRUTH BEHIND DECADES OF OPEN BORDER POLICIES AND THE RESULTING DEVASTATION TO WHAT WAS ONCE A GREAT NATION!!!
THIS IS NOT A LEFT OR A RIGHT THING, A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN THING… IT IS A US POLICY THING, ENDLESSLY SERVING THE INTERESTS OF CORPORATIONS… OPEN BORDER POLICIES HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED, ENCOURAGED, FUNDED AND SUPPORTED BY REAGAN (LAST PRESIDENT WHO ENACTED AMNESTY), CLINTON, BOTH BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS AND NOW OBAMA. WORKING ALL THE WHILE WITH YOUR IMPLICIT LEGISLATORS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE AND CORPORATE LOBBYISTS TO DEGRADE THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR COMMON AMERICANS!
WHEN THEY’RE NOT BUSILY CREATING OUTSOURCING POLICY TO SEND YOUR JOBS OFF TO INDIA, ASIA OR LATIN AMERICA AND EXPLOITING THOSE PEOPLES FOR SLAVE-LABOR, THESE TRAITORS ARE COLLECTIVELY HUSTLING DOMESTICALLY TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE THE INFLOW OF MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL (AND LEGAL) IMMIGRANTS TO COMPETE FOR YOUR WAGES RIGHT HERE ON AMERICAN SOIL… YOUR HOME TURF!
THEY SOLICIT FROM INDIA, ASIA AND ELSEWHERE TO UNSEAT AMERICAN SKILLED LABOR AND FROM LATIN AMERICA TO CREATE COMPETITION FOR THE UNSKILLED POSITIONS THAT WOULD NORMALLY BE FILLED BY AMERICAN YOUTH SUCH AS HIGH-SCOOL AND COLLEGE GRADUATES OR THE ELDERLY WHO NEED TO CONTINUE WORKING INTO THEIR RETIREMENT YEARS TO MAKE ENDS-MEET DUE TO THE US GOVERNMENT’S WAR-ON-WAGES SPANNING MULTIPLE DECADES!
THE ONE THING THAT THESE TRAITOR POLICY MAKERS AND THEIR CORPORATE EXECUTIVE COHORTS DON’T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THEY ARE INDEED CONDEMNING THEIR OWN OFFSPRING OR PROGENY TO THE SAME HELLISH CONDITIONS AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY THINK THEY ARE JUST SUBJECTING THE COMMON FOLK OF AMERICA TO. THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE ROYALTY, BUT THEY ARE NOT! THEIR LEGACY WILL CERTAINLY NOT WALK IN THEIR SAME SHOES. INSTEAD, THEY WILL BE FORCED TO DWELL AMONG THE MASSES AND SUBJECTED TO THE SAME ECONOMIC DEVASTATION THAT THEIR LOVING, POLITICIAN PARENTS HAVE CREATED FOR ALL OF US! GOOD LUCK TO THOSE SOULS OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT GENERATION! THEY’LL NEED IT TO COEXIST! NO LEVEL OF GENERATIONAL ESTATE PLANNING WILL AVERT THE FURIOUS BACKLASH THAT THE CHILDREN OF POLICY MAKERS WILL HAVE TO ENDURE FOR THE MISGUIDED, GREEDY ACTIONS OF THEIR PARENTS.
SAVE YOUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE AND OPENLY VOICE (SHOUT) YOUR OPPOSITION TO THE CURRENT, ILLEGAL INVASION AND ECONOMIC TERROR THAT OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS SUBJECTED ITS CITIZENRY TO FOR DECADES!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW MUCH LONGER DO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO TOLERATE OUT AND OUT ABUSE AND ECONOMIC TERROR PURPETRATED BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT?
WHEN WILL A PATRIOTIC GROUP OF LAWYERS OR LEGISLATORS TAKE ON THE TASK OF FILING LAW SUIT AFTER LAW SUIT, ONE-BY-ONE, PURSUING & PROSECUTING THOSE IN THE US GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS WHO WILLFULLY AND WOEFULLY WORK AGAINST THE BETTER INTRESTS OF THEIR CONSTITUENCY, THE CITIZENRY, THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA??? WE NEED TO ASSEMBLE A CRACK TEAM CONSISTING OF A FEW DOZEN LAWYERS TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY AND INDIVIDUALLY PURSUE THOSE RESPONSIBLE!!! DEVIDE THEM AND CONQUER THEM!!!
WAKE UP FOLKS!!! FOR TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!!!
YOUR FUTURE JOB SECURITY HANGS IN THE BALANCE, IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO NOTHING TO STOP THIS NOW IT WILL BE NO ONE'S FAULT BUT YOUR OWN!!!
CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBANTS THIS TIME!
Close The Borders, Yet STOP BLAMING THE POOR FOOD PICKING, LAWN MOWING, DISHWASHERS FOR OUR NATIONS WOES, ITS THE REPUBLICANS THAT MADE THIS MESS. THEY LEFT US WITH A 11 TRILLION$$$$$$ DEFICIT.
Here are real facts,
How much Money $$$$$$$$$ has Jan Brewer allocated to the Immigration law bill she signed?? This is just a poly to get ELECTED.
1, How many new Police Men / Women has she hired to hold and process the undocumented? NONE!!!!
2, How many new jails shes built to hold the thousands of Undocumented?? NONE!!!
3, How many New Immigration Judges shes hired to process the thousands of new Immigration cases?? NONE!!!
4, How many new Buses she brought to transport the Undocumented to the border ?/ NONE!!!
With all due respect to Paul and his family, this is not national news and its promotion by Fox smells terribly of propaganda. (Not to mention election year politics in AZ)
Hermest T which Native American tribe are you from? If you're not, I'm not sure you have a leg to stand on.
It was considered a great achievement when our grand parents, great-grand parents, or our parents made it to this country to provide a better life for their children. Now if causes people like you to spew hate-filled comments at those trying to do the same for their families.
I agree we need to patch up our borders, but those who enter the country legally should be given the same respect that our relatives were afforded all those years ago.
Hermest T, maybe one less cup of coffee next time?
I can't speak for all readers, but I know my eyes glaze over when sometime writes 1000 word monologues in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.
I especially like the part at the end where you say "CIRCULATE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!! VOTE OUT ALL INCUMBANTS THIS TIME!"
Just so we're clear, you're opposed to *everyone* currently in office? What about the ones who are in favor of what you're suggesting? They have to go, too? Some might think that maybe you're just lashing out and have no idea what you are talking about.
And I'll take a wild guess here and say that you're probably all fired up about the deficit this month, too. But you're in favor of spending our money on some completely impracticable plan to lock down a 2,000 mile border. You realize that in all of human history, there's never been a border as secure as you want the Mexican border to be? People got into and out of Berlin during the cold war, North Korea in the 2000s, etc.
Also, we have a large border with Canada, and 4 or 5 thousand miles of coast. We going to cover all that in fence and barbed wire too?
There's holiday cheer throughout the Berkshires this winter.
Many homeowners are showing their holiday spirit by decorating their houses. We asked for submissions so those in the community can check out these fanciful lights and decor when they're out.
We asked the homeowners questions on their decorations and why they like to light up their houses.
In Great Barrington, Matt Pevzner has decorated his house with many lights and even has a Facebook page dedicated to making sure others can see the holiday joy.
Located at 93 Brush Hill Road, there's more than 61,000 lights strewn across the yard decorating trees and reindeer and even a polar bear.
The Pevzner family started decorating in September by testing their hundreds of boxes of lights. He builds all of his own decorations like the star 10-foot star that shines done from 80-feet up, 10 10-foot trees, nine 5-foot trees, and even the sleigh, and more that he also uses a lift to make sure are perfect each year.
"I always decorated but I went big during COVID. I felt that people needed something positive and to bring joy and happiness to everyone," he wrote. "I strive to bring as much joy and happiness as I can during the holidays. I love it when I get a message about how much people enjoy it. I've received cards thanking me how much they enjoyed it and made them smile. That means a lot."
Pevzner starts thinking about next year's display immediately after they take it down after New Year's. He gets his ideas by asking on his Facebook page for people's favorite decorations. The Pevzner family encourages you to take a drive and see their decorations, which are lighted every night from 5 to 10.
In North Adams, the Wilson family decorates their house with fun inflatables and even a big Santa waving to those who pass by.
The Wilsons start decorating before Thanksgiving and started decorating once their daughter was born and have grown their decorations each year as she has grown. They love to decorate as they used to drive around to look at decorations when they were younger and hope to spread the same joy.
"I have always loved driving around looking at Christmas lights and decorations. It's incredible what people can achieve these days with their displays," they wrote.
The Wilsons' invite you to come and look at their display at 432 Church St. that's lit from 4:30 to 10:30 every night, though if it's really windy, the inflatables might not be up as the weather will be too harsh.
In Pittsfield, Travis and Shannon Dozier decorated their house for the first time this Christmas as they recently purchased their home on Faucett Lane. The two started decorating in November, and hope to bring joy to the community.
"If we put a smile on one child's face driving by, then our mission was accomplished," they said.
Many homeowners are showing their holiday spirit by decorating their houses. We asked for submissions so those in the community can check out these fanciful lights and decor when they're out.
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