Video: Michelle on immigration and the wildfires

posted at 4:45 pm on October 26, 2007 by Allahpundit

One arson suspect, Catalino Pineda, is allegedly here legally but may be on probation. Another suspect’s status is more murky. MM addresses the implications, doubtless leading ace reporter Geraldo Rivera to work up a loogie at an undisclosed location.

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Now we import our arsonists! Thank a liberal. And thank an enviromentalist for uncontrolled fires.

Mojave Mark on October 26, 2007 at 4:49 PM

Bill the Mexican government for the damage. Simple.

Foreign governments should be held responsible for damage or injury their citizens cause while in this country.

Gregor on October 26, 2007 at 4:51 PM

Local video of Pineda arrest

Caught

William Amos on October 26, 2007 at 4:53 PM

Thank a liberal.

Mojave Mark on October 26, 2007 at 4:49 PM

Thank a liberal? I continue to see members of our Party who still haven’t noticed that it’s OUR representatives consistently leading the charge in support of illegal aliens.

Just ask MexicanAztlan Presidente Jorge Bush.

Gregor on October 26, 2007 at 4:54 PM

Proponents of protection and sanctuary for illegal aliens may be acting with the best of intents based on their beliefs, but sooner or later they will realize that their actions have resulted in a lower quality of life , increased public safety issues, massive wage suppression in low income jobs and reduction in health care alternatives for the population as a whole.

As just as they believe their cause is, at some point they will be forced the confront the unintended outcomes of their actions.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 4:58 PM

As just as they believe their cause is, at some point they will be forced the confront the unintended outcomes of their actions.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 4:58 PM

Will they though? The left hasn’t really had to confront the unintended consequences and problems of The Great Society and the New Deal, and its been decades.

Bad Candy on October 26, 2007 at 5:03 PM

Oh come on!! These are “hard-working” arsonists! They are only setting fires that lazy Americans are “just not willing” to set!

Gatordoug on October 26, 2007 at 5:05 PM

Michelle looks awake this time!

Bad Candy on October 26, 2007 at 5:08 PM

Waiting for the screams of “scapegoating” to start coming in from the Left

ToddonCapeCod on October 26, 2007 at 5:23 PM

Agreed, but at some point the combination of all the individual things will reach the critical mass of the actions will be hard to hide.

Even now you can see measures that would have occurred almost without comment on their own are all encountering some form of backlash.

That is a sign that awareness of the sum of actions is occurring and the tide may be turning.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 5:24 PM

I fully expect another “worst off” nomination.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 5:41 PM

If we’re to believe in Chief Bratton’s policing strategies based on the broken windows theory, then we should look at illegals’ initial breach of our borders as their first broken window. Until that behavior has been addressed or corrected, it is only a matter of time until they commit another crime.

Why are we surprised when we get crime from people from whom we demand no allegiance, documentation or respect?

The Race Card on October 26, 2007 at 6:02 PM

Bill the Mexican government for the damage. Simple

Gregor on October 26, 2007 at 4:51 PM

Dude, that’s hardcore considering he wasn’t from Mexico.

sweeper on October 26, 2007 at 6:17 PM

Fire is an all to common tool used be aliens and smugglers.

Arsonist Illegals “Burning Out” US Border Security Agents
Unarmed patrols attacked by Mexicans setting fire to observation posts

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Illegal alien arsonists from Mexico are setting fire to security observation posts in Arizona and attacking Border Patrol Agents by throwing flaming grapefruit sized rocks, firebombs and Molotov cocktails at them.

The Washington Times is reporting that U.S. Border Patrol agents seeking to secure the nation’s border in some of the country’s most pristine national forests are being targeted by illegal aliens, who are using intentionally set fires to burn agents out of observation posts and patrol routes.

According to the Times, firefighters in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona have to be accompanied by armed police and authorities admit smugglers of aliens and drugs have walked through the middle of active firefighting operations.

At least five fires were set below a Border Patrol observation post during the operation in an effort to burn the agents out, according to a Forest Service report. The fires were extinguished, and no one was arrested.

The fires correspond to a dramatic rise in assaults against Border Patrol agents — up more than 100 percent over last year.

A Forest Service supervisor told a House Appropriations subcommittee last month that the law-enforcement personnel have been assaulted, threatened with weapons and shot at, and their vehicles have been rammed by cross-border violators. The Senate however continues to push for total blanket amnesty while offering empty promises to secure the border, which the President has bizarrely stated will be funded by raising $4.4bn in immediate additional funding from fines collected from illegals caught entering the US.

In other words the problem itself is being touted as the solution!

The Times also states that other blazes also have been set, including two this month near the San Luis, Ariz., port of entry as the result of Molotov cocktails — one of which barely missed a Border Patrol agent. These events were barely mentioned in the media however.

Border patrol agents, who are not legally allowed to defend themselves with force if attacked, are regularly being attacked by illegal aliens with grapefruit-size rocks wrapped in rags, dipped in gasoline and set on fire, according to the Forest Service report.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/june2007/190607illegals.htm

Speakup on October 26, 2007 at 6:41 PM

This should outrage people in this country! And start demanding deportation under our laws now.

xler8bmw on October 26, 2007 at 6:58 PM

I wonder if Geraldo was venting his anger at Michelle by spitting on the fires instead of on her.

He’s been down there. Cali should have put his no-talent tokus to work.

madmonkphotog on October 26, 2007 at 7:26 PM

HuffPo caught some sites linking to a fake website that fooled a lot of people with a false CNN story trying to make like they were Head Line News, but the URL was bogus.

I just checked to follow to the story and it has already been pulled down by the fakers.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 7:49 PM

The ‘boss’ looked good! It wsa just too short. She didn’t have enough time to elaborate about the illegals setting the fires to distract the Feds. The other speaker seemed to have good info on the subject also. Neal just cut everything off to soon.

countywolf on October 26, 2007 at 7:54 PM

The fake site was having Mecha claiming to have set the fires.

Some sick people out there.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 7:58 PM

MM addresses the implications, doubtless leading ace reporter Geraldo Rivera to work up a loogie at an undisclosed location.

LoL!

Lawrence on October 26, 2007 at 8:36 PM

Thank a liberal? I continue to see members of our Party who still haven’t noticed that it’s OUR representatives consistently leading the charge in support of illegal aliens.

Just ask MexicanAztlan Presidente Jorge Bush.

Gregor on October 26, 2007 at 4:54 PM

Boosh is not a Conservative or a real Republican. He’s an Internationalist and Mexophile.

cmdrsubfleet on October 26, 2007 at 9:03 PM

As just as they believe their cause is, at some point they will be forced the confront the unintended outcomes of their actions.

CommentGuy on October 26, 2007 at 4:58 PM

The left NEVER conronts the unintended or intended negative outcomes of their actions. They just blame somone else such as you, ,me, or their favorite “Bush did it!!!”

allrsn on October 26, 2007 at 9:18 PM

The ‘boss’ looked good! It wsa just too short. She didn’t have enough time to elaborate about the illegals setting the fires to distract the Feds. The other speaker seemed to have good info on the subject also. Neal just cut everything off to soon.

countywolf on October 26, 2007 at 7:54 PM

At the risk of sounding a bit dandy, if not shallow, I must say Michelle’s curls were bangin!

Also, I believe that she will be rewarded greatly for acting with such integrity regarding the Spitmeister and Bloviator. There seems to be a mad rush to utilize her skillset in a much broader capacity by the entire news team at Fox. Oreilly should feel like an ass.

She is as classic as June Beaver’s pearl necklace.

The Race Card on October 26, 2007 at 9:35 PM

San Diego PD is notorious from refusing to go after even the most horrific crimes perpetrated by illegals.

Children Forced into Prostitution in San Diego Agricultural Camps

En Español

Girls and adolescents are kidnapped and taken to San Diego, where they are obliged to prostitute themselves in agricultural camps

El Universal (The Universal Newspaper)

Thursday, January 9, 2003

Anabel Hernández García (translated by Chuck Goolsby)

Courtesy of El Universal newspaper from Mexico City

Part I of III

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – When Rick Castro, a deputy sheriff for San Diego County burst in to the house in Vista, a lower middle class neighborhood to the north of San Diego, the first thing that he saw was the destitute brown eyes of a slight girl no older than fourteen, whose hair hung to the middle of her back, dressed in a short black miniskirt and a white tee shirt with the red and blue letters “USA” on it.

The officer was moved by her beauty, but was moved even more by the look of terror in her eyes. Paola had just arrived a few weeks ago at this house of prostitution, dragged there from Morelos, Mexico by the Salazar brothers. Julio, Tomás y Luciano Salazar-Juárez are the dons of the largest local network trafficking and sexual exploiting Mexican girls and adolescents, who have operated for over ten years in the agricultural camps and suburbs of San Diego.

The three men from the Mexican state of Oaxaca had found in the land of opportunity the perfect place to build their empire, trafficking from southern Mexico to the U.S. border with their human merchandise. In their path, they kidnap, extort, corrupt and violate our national laws and those of the United States, with nobody to stop them.

http://www.captivedaughters.org/sandiego-english.htm

Speakup on October 26, 2007 at 9:46 PM

This should outrage people in this country! And start demanding deportation under our laws now.

xler8bmw on October 26, 2007 at 6:58 PM

Time to copy Mexico’s immigration policies.

A little “reciprocity,” anyone?

Texas Nick 77 on October 27, 2007 at 8:04 AM

BRAVO, Speakup!

With such magna-destruction, beware the emphatic ease to utilize cheap illegal labor to rebuild. Can’t you hear it already, “we NEED them” (like a hole in the head).

Given, terror techniques are WRONG.

As per speculation regarding PR terror techniques, the recent explosion at the Mexican Consulate, or in a different scenario the hateful nooses left hanging about another distressing social matter, MAY ILLUSTRATE, as a form of backhanded propaganda, criminal behaviors accomplished on behalf of the very victims in order to stir up PC public sentiment.

Alas, how easy it is to accomplish sabotage in our great nation.

maverick muse on October 27, 2007 at 8:49 AM

On the other side of this, Fox news reported some illegals were arrested for stealing supplies over at the Qualcomm field. Supplies intended for the evacuees.

So the list of heinous acts committed by illegals just gets longer and longer and longer.

And, shouldn’t setting these fires be considered an act of terrorism?

dogsoldier on October 27, 2007 at 10:37 AM

Great work MM and all on the FOX network.

Need remind the enforcement groups that their job is simple, the only problem is that politics clouds the fact that those who are here illegally must know that we are not going to take it anymore.

Also, use the cell phones to communicate-smoke signals got out of control.

MSGTAS on October 27, 2007 at 11:25 AM

As usual, MM did a great job. Too bad Huggy Bear couldn’t extend the time because both had a lot more to say.

Back to the origin of why illegals from any country have invaded ours. There is a thirst for cheap labor, both in the private sector and business world. Until we can learn to cut our own lawns, wash our own windows, or seek out contractors that only employ legal citizens we have no one to blame but ourselves. From the lush fields in California to the chicken and meat processing plants across our country illegal cheap wages have allowed us to eat and export some of the best food in the world. Most of us throw away more food a week than consumed by many families across the globe. Is it right? I don’t think so. It will dig into our pockets to pay non-slave wages for food and services. Absent the background checks on those entering or already living here has created the mess in SoCal with 1/4 of the coastline burnt. Monday morning San Diego will still be a sanctuary city.

24K lady on October 27, 2007 at 12:32 PM

I live in Chula Vista which had the Harris fire this year and the Otay fire 4 years ago, burn right up to the Eastern edge of the city. Both fires started out in the middle of nowhere in the county right along the border. If memory serves me right, the Otay fire was attributed to an “illegal” campfire. Draw your own conclusion, I’ve drawn mine. The Harris fire started just east of the highway that goes to the Tecate border crossing. The terrain there is very rugged and is known to be an area that illegal border crossers and drug smugglers use. It could have been started by downed power lines but there’s too much coincidence between when and where both of these fires started, (Predicted and realized Santa Ana conditions, in the middle of a known smuggling area). Also some of the injured people are reported to be illegal immigrants that just happened to be caught in the fire. Also just yesterday the Border Patrol found 4 more bodies near the fire’s origin and I’ll bet you they were illegals too.

ic1redeye on October 27, 2007 at 2:13 PM

There seems to be a mad rush to utilize her skillset in a much broader capacity by the entire news team at Fox.

Doesn’t Fox have any other experts in forestry management.

scooter on October 27, 2007 at 6:58 PM

…..doubtless leading ace reporter Geraldo Rivera to work up a loogie at an undisclosed location.

Actually Geraldodo was out in California at the bonfire. I heard he was trying to track down those illegal aliens who stole stuff from the stadium hoping that they would hire him as their attorney.

It is sure good to see Michelle showing up on Fox again!

OBX Pete on October 27, 2007 at 7:27 PM