Obama and the DOJ have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to enforcing our borders and protecting legal American citizens.  They are are the side of illegal aliens---not law abiding US citizens.

The federal government took a momentous step into the immigration debate Tuesday when it filed a lawsuit seeking to throw out Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, calling it a law that blatantly violates the Constitution.  The Arizona law enforced federal law and Obama is paying back all of the illegals and Hispanics that voted for him--what an idoit for a President.  Where is DHS in securing the border?

The lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix sets the stage for a high-stakes legal clash over states rights at a time when politicians across the country have indicated they want to follow Arizona's lead on the toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.

The legal action represents a thorough denunciation by the government of Arizona's action, declaring that the law will "cause the detention and harassment of authorized visitors, immigrants and citizens who do not have or carry identification documents" while altogether ignoring "humanitarian concerns" and harming diplomatic relations.

Supporters of the law say the suit was an unnecessary action by the federal government after years of neglecting problems at the border. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer called the lawsuit "a terribly bad decision."

Arizona passed the law after years of frustration over problems associated with illegal immigration, including drug trafficking, kidnappings and murders. The state is the biggest gateway into the U.S. for illegal immigrants, and is home to an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants.

The law requires officers, while enforcing other laws, to question a person's immigration status if there's a reasonable suspicion that they are in the country illegally. The law also makes it a state crime for legal immigrants to not carry their immigration documents and bans day laborers and people who seek their services from blocking traffic on streets.

Other states have said they want to take similar action — a scenario the government cited as a reason for bringing the lawsuit.

"The Constitution and the federal immigration laws do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country," the suit says.

The heart of the legal arguments focus on the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, a theory that says federal laws override state laws. The lawsuit says there are comprehensive federal laws on the books that cover illegal immigration — and that those statutes take precedent.

"In our constitutional system, the federal government has pre-eminent authority to regulate immigration matters," the lawsuit says. "This authority derives from the United States Constitution and numerous acts of Congress. The nation's immigration laws reflect a careful and considered balance of national law enforcement, foreign relations, and humanitarian interests."

The government is seeking an injunction to delay the July 29 implementation of the law until the case is resolved. It ultimately wants the law struck down.

State Sen. Russell Pearce, the principal sponsor of the bill co-sponsored by dozens of fellow Republican legislators, denounced the lawsuit as "absolute insult to the rule of law" as well as to Arizona and its residents.

"It's outrageous and it's clear they don't want (immigration) laws enforced. What they want is to continue their non-enforcement policy," Pearce said. "They ignore the damage to America, the cost to our citizens, the deaths" tied to border-related violence.

The lawsuit is sure to have legal and political ramifications beyond Arizona as the courts weigh in on balancing power between the states and the federal government and politicians invoke the immigration issue in this crucial election year.

Reflecting the political delicacy of the issue, three Democratic members of Congress in Arizona asked the Obama administration not to bring the suit in a year when they face tough re-election battles. On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain is locked into a tough primary fight as his right-leaning GOP challenger takes him to task for his earlier promotion of comprehensive immigration reform, which he has since abandoned in favor of a message to "Complete the danged fence."

The case focuses heavily on the legal argument called pre-emption — an issue that has been around since the Founding Fathers declared that the laws of the United States "shall be the supreme Law of the land."

The Obama administration's reliance on the pre-emption argument in the Arizona case marks the latest chapter in its use of this legal tool.

Within months of taking office, the Obama White House directed department heads to undertake pre-emption of state law only with full consideration of the legitimate prerogatives of the states.

The 2009 directive was aimed at reversing Bush administration policy which had aggressively employed preemption in an effort to undermine a wide range of state health, safety and environmental laws.

"The case strikes me as incredibly important because of its implications for the immigration debate," said University of Michigan constitutional law professor Julian Davis Mortenson. "The courts are going to take a close look at whether the Arizona law conflicts with congressional objectives at the federal level."

Kris Kobach, the University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor who helped draft the Arizona law, said he's not surprised by the Justice Department's challenge but called it "unnecessary."

He noted that the law already is being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups opposed to the new statute.

"The issue was already teed up in the courts. There's no reason for the Justice Department to get involved. The Justice Department doesn't add anything by bringing their own lawsuit," Kobach said in an interview.

Obama is playing Chicago style politics and is attacking the voters and US citizens who did not vote for him.  Just like the Black Panther case, he is siding with the criminals.  Mr. Obama---be a real President and enforce the laws for US citizens.

Due to the lack of security on our southern border, we are experiencing increased drug and gang violence across our country.  This is totally due to the administration not securing our borders.  When will the elected leaders of our nation start securing our borders with our military?  It will take military force on both sides of the border to stop the drugs and violence.

Mexican drug cartels formed new alliances in 2009 with violent American street and prison gangs that helped tighten their stranglehold on the lucrative U.S. narcotics market, but competition among Mexican smugglers remains fierce and threatens more bloodshed in the United States, according to a Justice Department report.

The 2010 Drug Threat Assessment, released Thursday, also says Mexican drug cartels control most of the illicit cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine trade into the U.S., along with much of the marijuana distribution. The cartels' tentacles reach every state, including some unexpected rural areas of the U.S.

"The growing strength and organization of criminal gangs, including their growing alliances with large Mexican [drug trafficking organiza[JUMP]tions], has changed the nature of midlevel and retail drug distribution in many local drug markets, even in suburban and rural areas," says the National Drug Intelligence Center report.

"As a result, disrupting illicit drug availability and distribution will become increasingly difficult for state and local law enforcement agencies."  According to the report, the Mexican connection benefits U.S. street gangs, as they are able to buy drugs directly from the cartels, which enables the gangs to flood the streets with less expensive drugs by cutting out midlevel wholesale dealers.

As an example, according to the report, members of the Chicago-based Latin Kings gang in Midland, Texas, now purchase cocaine directly from Mexican traffickers for $16,000 to $18,000 a kilogram. Those drugs then can be shipped directly to Chicago, where it would have cost the gang nearly $30,000 more to purchase a kilogram of cocaine from a midlevel wholesaler.

"With this savings," the report says, "the gang undersells other local dealers who do not have the capacity to buy large wholesale quantities directly from Mexican [drug trafficking organizations] in Mexico or along the Southwest border."  The street gangs also prove useful to the cartels. The report says drug traffickers use gang members in Mexico and, to a lesser extent, in the U.S., especially in Texas and California, to protect smuggling routes, collect debts and kill rival traffickers.

"Gang members who are U.S. citizens are a particularly valuable asset to Mexican [drug trafficking organizations] because they can normally cross the U.S.-Mexico border with less law enforcement scrutiny and therefore are less likely to have illicit drug loads interdicted," the report says.

Despite the worries of U.S. law enforcement, a vast majority of the violence still occurs on the Mexican side of the border. In 2009, according to unofficial estimates, as many as 8,000 people in Mexico, including 800 police and military officers, were killed as the cartels fought over smuggling corridors and responded to increased attention from authorities.

Mr. President---Stop supporting the illegals and the criminals---start enforcing the law and securing our nation.  Your number one job is to protect American citizens.

Montgomery County and Maryland are a "safe-zone" for illegal aliens due to liberal Democrat elected officials' policy.  Illegals cost the state of Maryland $1.4 Billion in taxpayer funds annually.  This does not count the human suffering from ID theft, crime, and murder of Montgomery County citizens by illegal aliens. 

Even the police union is suing the county and Ike Leggett over its "hands-off" policy dealing with illegals.  Leggett and the Police Chief have sent a clear message to all illegals---come to Montgomery County and we will NOT arrest you unless you commit murder (and if we arrest you, we will not report you to ICE).


County, police union in showdown over illegal-immigration policy
By: Alan Suderman
Examiner Staff Writer

December 7, 2009

Montgomery County and the Fraternal Order of Police union could be headed to court over the county police department's policy for handling illegal immigrants, according to the union's lawyer.

FOP attorney Paul Stein said the county's policy was "unconstitutional" and dangerous to the county's police officers and residents.

In a letter to County Attorney Leon Rodriguez, Stein asked for justification of the policy, which limits officers' ability to contact U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Union officials have complained that the county's immigration policies are politically motivated and hamper efforts to gather information on suspected criminals.

In February, the county changed its policy so ICE would be contacted when police arrested anyone, including illegal immigrants, in a violent or handgun-related crime. The policy came in response to a string of high-profile violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants in the county.

In September, the police department sent out a memo to officers emphasizing that federal immigration authorities should not be contacted after arresting someone based on solely gang affiliation or immigration status.

The September memo also indicated that officers needed to first get approval from the department before assisting ICE agents.

That memo came after an illegal immigrant, who said he was a former gang member, accused police of assaulting him and turning him over to ICE after he complained about the department.

Rodriguez told The Examiner he believed the county's policy was legal, but has not responded directly to the union. County Executive Ike Leggett and police department officials have said the policy helps foster a sense of trust between the police officers and the county's illegal immigrant population.

Stein said the union wanted to avoid a legal showdown, but if there were issues that couldn't be resolved, then "a court might have to resolve it."

He said his officers felt handcuffed in doing their jobs, which include regularly communicating with other government agencies.

The policy "on its face and in application limits our police officers from communicating with ICE until some horrible or horrendous crime occurs, such as first-degree murder, multiple murders, abduction of a 16-year-old for immoral purposes, first-degree sex assault," Stein said.

Stein also pointed out that federal law prohibited the county from "restricting communication" from its officers to ICE "regarding immigration status of any individual."

Below is an article from a local newspaper.  The citizens of Maryland have been waiting for a long time for the elected officials to enforce the law and stop funding the illegals coming into Maryland.  We will see if it is real!!!!

Maryland to be part of effort to identify ‘criminal aliens'

Inmates will be checked against federal databases

In one of President Barack Obama's first forays into immigration reform, Maryland's five largest jurisdictions are expected to implement a federal program next year that cross-checks the fingerprints of everyone processed in their jails against federal databases to better identify illegal immigrants.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's "Secure Communities" program was introduced in 50 jurisdictions last year and is projected to be in all of the nation's local jails by 2013. Montgomery, Prince George's, Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties and Baltimore city will be the state's first jurisdictions to take part.

Under the program, local law enforcement agents run every inmate's fingerprints through an FBI database and a database of all legal immigrants. Inmates determined to be illegal immigrants are flagged to be deported after they serve their sentence.

ICE says Secure Communities will prioritize for deportation violent criminals serving sentences longer than a year.

The Secure Communities program, however, has its share of detractors. Some defense attorneys and immigrant advocates say that early deportations are common, sometimes even before a suspect's trial. And, critics charge that previous enforcement efforts were supposed to prioritize dangerous criminals but sometimes failed to do so.

"Everybody is in a state of confusion," said Kerry O'Brien, director of the legal team for Casa of Maryland. "ICE is sending very mixed signals. Sometimes it's only the worst criminals, other times it's a fingerprint box and a piece of software."

In their fiscal 2010 Homeland Security appropriations bills, the House earlier this summer approved $200 million for Secure Communities and the Senate, $196 million. Conference committee review is expected in the fall.

Once approved, the five Maryland jurisdictions will implement Secure Communities sometime in 2010, said ICE spokeswoman Gillian Brigham. The rest of Maryland should be enrolled by 2013.

In Montgomery County, news of Secure Communities comes less than six months after County Executive Isiah Leggett began requiring county police to send ICE the names of everyone arrested and charged with crimes of violence and gun violations.

Questions over the logistics of implementing Secure Communities and whether local jurisdictions can opt out have yet to be answered.

County Attorney Leon Rodriguez will hash over those issues with ICE officials Sept. 3, but so far, County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) does not see cause for concern, said his spokesman, Patrick K. Lacefield.

"This is going to be happening in the entire country; this is the shape of things to come," Lacefield said. "We have always said that immigration is the feds' responsibility. Well, here they're saying they're going to do this piece."

"It's just a question of roll-out and a question of detail," Lacefield added.

A spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon was unable to find any city staffers who were aware that the city was slated for the program.

A spokesman for Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson was unfamiliar with Secure Communities and was not able to contact county staff who were.

Criminal deportations soaring

Under ICE's Criminal Alien Program, federal agents already pore over inmate logs sent by local jails. The agency estimates that the United States has between 300,000 and 450,000 immigrants serving time in local, state and federal prisons.

The number of immigration warrants issued through the Criminal Alien Program skyrocketed from fewer than 32,000 in 2006 to more than 220,000 last year.

ICE has doubled the number of criminals it has picked up for deportation from Montgomery County jails each of the past two years. In 2007, ICE removed 172 such inmates from county jails, according to county officials. In 2008, the number mushroomed to 274, and through July 28, agents have picked up 320 for deportation this year.

ICE officials would not comment on what is driving the increase in Montgomery County, but did point out that funding for the deportations from the nation's jails grew from $138 million in fiscal 2007 to $189 million in fiscal 2009.

Possibly a ‘powerful tool'

Marc Rosenblum, senior policy analyst for the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute, says Secure Communities should prove a "powerful tool" in identifying dangerous criminals for deportation.

He said that unlike ICE's controversial 287g program, which enables officers to make immigration-based arrests, Secure Communities doesn't rely on nuanced training and the discretion of local law enforcement officials.

But the program is so new that advocates have yet to gauge how prioritizing the worst criminals plays out at a community level.

"That is a little bit opaque; we don't know how that's going to work," Rosenblum said.

Immigrant advocates worry Secure Communities could encourage local officers to make arrests along ethnic or racial lines and that it will damage immigrants' trust of local police.

Montgomery County's shift in immigration policy dealt a blow to that relationship, and Secure Communities will only deepen the mistrust, said O'Brien, of Casa of Maryland, which has joined a national campaign against the program.

"It's very disappointing," O'Brien said. "If it comes through as pre-conviction checking and deportation for minor crimes and accusation of minor crimes, it's completely devastating.

"Every single person who goes into a jail gets screened, so the word on the street is going to be that if you have a beer in the park and get caught, you're going to be deported. All cooperation will dry up."

Montgomery County's elected officials have an "Open Door" policy to all illegal immigrants and they wonder why we have a gang issue!!!  Below is an article in the Washington Times covering the gang issues.  Citizens in Montgomery County must see the facts and understand that our criminal issues are directly related to the acceptance of illegal immigrants by our politicans.  Maybe with the election in 2010, citizens will make a change and vote these politicians out of office who do not enforce the law.

On the evening of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, a watchful full moon illuminates the Silver Spring Metro station, where "Ghost," 24, of Langley Park, interacts with passersby and lets them know that he has "nicks goin' quick."

While he openly hustles $5 bags of marijuana, or "nicks," he downplays Montgomery County's gang activity.

Montgomery County has only "Faker Bloods. Fake Crips. Just unorganized wannabes. The only thing serious is MS-13. Nothing else - wannabes. Trying too hard," says Ghost, who asked that his full name not be used.

With more than a half dozen visible tattoos, he says that whenever the police see him, they will automatically operate under the assumption that he is gang-affiliated.

"Some gang members don't have typical identification markers. You won't know they're a gang member until they bust your head in and throw up that sign," Ghost says.

He insists that he is not in a gang and doesn't "gang-bang." Instead, he "mobs" - or hustles - with a large but loose group of what he termed as "islanders."

As certain areas of Montgomery County have undergone the transformation from rural to predominantly urbanized suburbs of the District, problems historically associated with inner-city life have moved beyond their traditional boundaries.

On June 1, Montgomery County's elected officials announced the appointment of Victor DelPino as the new chief of the county's gang-prosecution unit in the State's Attorney's Office.

Mr. DelPino, 33, a Silver Spring native, began working with the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office five years ago and was a member of the first gang-prosecution unit in Maryland when that agency announced the creation of a gang task force in 2007.

The unit is in place to attack the issue of gang activity "proactively," and has been instrumental in "training prosecutors to handle [gang] cases appropriately," Mr. DelPino said. His immediate staff consists of five prosecutors and three investigators.

Becoming the first Hispanic to lead a trial unit in county history, Mr. DelPino wants to make it clear that gang activity is not isolated to one particular ethnic group or national origin.

The diversity of Montgomery County is reflected in the diversity that county police see in gang membership, Mr. DelPino said.

In Montgomery County, gangs can have a "multicultural membership" that is rarely seen in other parts of the country, Mr. DelPino said.

He acknowledged that county law enforcement has seen the growth of local Bloods, who use the same name and brand as the gang started in Los Angeles, but there has not been any evidence to support a linkage between localized sets and the larger national organization.

Mr. DelPino acknowledged the sensitivity of branding a certain individual or group of individuals as being gang-affiliated. The county has an intense validation process to verify active gang members, and acknowledges that his office "takes it very serious."

"Before we mention 'gang' in open court, we make sure the validation process is correct," he said.

Mr. DelPino's office is actively reaching out to members of the community and speaking at schools and public hearings. The objective of his office is to "develop a unified front within the county, because everyone is on the same team, with the same goal. We want kids to not join gangs, to have alternatives, and ultimately be successful."

According to county police, 5 percent of all county crime is gang-related. The county has about 40 active gangs and 1,150 gang members of all backgrounds, according to the state's attorney's Web site.

Montgomery County initially began tracking gang activity in 1992 with a "gang intelligence" database.

Last November's shooting death of a 14-year-old high school freshman on a Ride-On-Bus in Silver Spring and the stabbing death of a 15-year-old in Gaithersburg's Malcolm King Park in January reminded county officials that, despite the additional prosecutorial and prevention resources they have developed, the county does have a gang problem that poses a threat to public safety for all county residents, according to several county officials.

A March report by Montgomery County Police Chief J. Thomas Manger states, "Our gang investigators were very busy in 2008. Although overall gang-related crime was down for 2008, burglaries and robberies were up significantly."

The report states that "the Central Business Districts of Silver Spring and Wheaton have a disproportionate amount of robberies and aggravated assaults."

According to the state's attorney's office, the county has an "'all crimes' approach" to gang activity, from trespassing offenses to homicide. If committed by a known gang member, the crime is tracked by Mr. DelPino's office. Since the creation of the gang-prosecution task force in 2007, Montgomery County has prosecuted nearly 1,000 gang-related offenses, although a single individual can account for multiple offenses.

Mr. DelPino said that although gang activity has been documented in all police districts in the county, certain areas of the county have a greater concentration of gang activity . In these areas, he explained, "We are seeing recruitment at an early age, and county residents have shared their great concern when seeing older kids hanging out at elementary schools."

"It is important we recognize that there are more kids in-county doing well, being of benefit to society than those who are detrimental," Mr. DelPino said.

Ashley Peters, 17, who grew up near First and Kennedy streets in Northwest Washington, is currently a student at Wheaton Senior High School. She is not in a gang, but thinks "the police set a certain image on all teens that all of us are no good and in gangs, which is not true."

Ashley concedes she did not think there was crime in the suburbs "until I moved to Wheaton, where I have witnessed innocent citizens robbed on the bus for iPods and cell phones."

She now says, "Everywhere, never let your guard down."

First-term Montgomery County Council member Marc Elrich, who taught for more than 15 years at Rolling Terrace Elementary School in Takoma Park, sees the county's dedication of resources toward gang prevention as a smaller element of the broader countywide effort to advance positive youth development.

Montgomery County's approach to gang prevention and youth development has changed, Mr. Elrich said.

"People are finally acknowledging there is a gang issue. We spent a lot of time avoiding the reality," he said. "You can't develop programming if you don't acknowledge the problem."

Currently, Mr. Elrich said, he is working to create a countywide coalition that brings together after-school programming and consolidates services in an effort to maximize the effectiveness of appropriate services on youth development.

He said the county needs more educational alternatives to discourage youths from turning to the streets.

Mr. Elrich and his staff are also working on an effective evaluation process because he said he recognizes that money is not unlimited. His office is focused on positive youth development, as eliminating gangs from the county will "not solve all of our concerns about safety and juvenile crime."

He said he wants to ensure the county does not lose focus on youths "not involved with gangs." All initiatives are aimed at providing opportunities for young adults to improve their quality of life and that of their families and communities, he said.

Although born in the United States, "Ghost" spent his childhood on a Caribbean island, where he says "hustling" - starting with selling marijuana - was a family tradition he quickly learned.

So what does "Ghost" think of the county's increased efforts to prosecute what is perceived as gang-related crime? "Courts just smash your head," he said. "They throw the book at you and call it doing something. That is what they call rehabilitation."

More communities need to do what they did in Victoria, Texas--boycott of illegal aliens.

An interesting event happened in Victoria, Texas, population of 55,000 and about 80 miles west of Houston.
 
Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasian owned  businesses in the Victoria area this past weekend as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community.  The boycott was declared a success by the Hispanic community, noting that revenue in Caucasian owned businesses was down by 19%.
 
Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, and the cost of daily clean-up and trash collection was down by 84%.  Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards.

Mayve CASA of Maryland will organize a boycott here in Maryland!!!!

Another murder linked to an illegal immigrant in the DC metro area.  When will elected officials stop illegals from roaming our streets and harming American citizens.  Below is information from the Washington Post.

D.C. police are seeking an arrest warrant against a Salvadoran immigrant in connection with the eight-year-old slaying of federal intern Chandra Levy, one of the most famous unsolved homicide cases in Washington history, according to law enforcement sources.  Levy's parents said D.C. police officials told them late Friday that they planned to make an arrest within "the next couple of days."

Sources with knowledge of the case and speaking under the condition of anonymity said police are moving toward arresting Ingmar Guandique, 27. About the time of Levy's disappearance in May 2001, Guandique, a day laborer, attacked two women at knifepoint in Rock Creek Park, where Levy's remains were found a year later. Guandique is serving a 10-year sentence at the U.S.  Pnitentiary - Victorville in Adelanto, Calif., for the two attacks.

In an interview yesterday, Susan Levy, Chandra's mother, said she was told by D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier and Lt. Michael Farish, a supervisor of the department's cold-case squad, that investigators had made a breakthrough.

The case has been bedeviled by furious media attention and costly police mistakes. Levy, who was a 24-year-old intern for the federal Bureau of Prisons, was having an affair with Gary A. Condit, a married congressman from California, when she vanished. Police initially focused on Condit.  He was not charged and lost a reelection bid in 2002. He has long maintained that he had nothing to do with Levy's disappearance.

Again, police know of illegal immigrants in our community and do nothing about it.  It is time to fire our elected officials and hire new ones who will stop illegal immigration and enforce the rule of law.

The below article is in the Washington Post today.  I have been saying for years that the welcome-mat for illegals is bad news for our community.  Illegal immigrants bring their own culture and criminal ways with them while they will join gangs and then commit crime when the jobs are not there. Many of us in the county have been victims of crime from illegal immigrants.  Ike Leggett is still supporting CASA and the illegal immigrant community, instead of the tax paying citizens.  It is time to throw Ike Leggett out of office and demand that the Police Chief do his job in identifying these individuals.


Attitudes Shift on Illegal Residents
Some Link Crime In Montgomery To Immigration
By Dan Morse and Ann E. Marimow

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, January 11, 2009; A01

For years, mainstream Montgomery County has been generally accepting of illegal immigrants, and county leaders followed suit, pledging not to enforce immigration laws even as police agencies elsewhere in the region began to do so.

But public sentiment appears to be shifting in Montgomery, driven less by ideology than by alarm over rising crime and the recent slayings of a 14-year-old honor student on a county transit bus and a 63-year-old woman in her Bethesda home.

"People who are very, very tolerant want to see some changes," said County Council member Marc Elrich (D-At Large), one of five council members who said in interviews that public opinion has shifted in recent months.

Elrich said crime has "really hit home" even in his neighborhood of Takoma Park, a city that since 1985 has officially refused to identify or report undocumented immigrants.  Mariana Cordier, who grew up in the county and is a past president of the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association, said residents are increasingly linking crime to illegal immigration.

"It's been slow to come to Montgomery County," she said of that perception, "but it has arrived."
Police Chief J. Thomas Manger is developing a proposal to have county police officers check the immigration status of suspects arrested for violent crimes and weapons offenses.

"I wouldn't have gone for it a year ago," Bethesda resident Judy Campbell said recently, leaving a natural food co-op in Takoma Park with soy milk and a slice of vegan double-chocolate fudge cake. "Until this series of violent crimes, it wasn't on my radar screen."

Campbell, a 50-year-old nurse, is an avowed liberal. She thinks illegal immigrants deserve publicly funded health care. She once voted for Dennis Kucinich. And for the upcoming inauguration, she plans to participate in Chant4Change, an event that bills itself as a gathering for "conscious revolutionaries."

Ike Leggett should be recalled and thrown out of office due to his open-border policy for illegal aliens.  Citizens in Montgomery County are being robbed and murdered every day by illegal aliens.  When will the citizens of Montgomery County have enough of his open-arms policy to illegals, CASA de Maryland and Day Labor Centers?  When will Montgoemry County citizens demand that our tax money not be spent on illegal aliens?

Chief Manger must be given the authority for his officers to be ICE certified through the DHS 287g program.  We must have law enforcement do their job and not have the politicians stand in their way of our safety.  We need a full-court press on the illegal criminals and the MS-13 gangs.

Below is an article from the Washington Post questioning the approach to illegal aliens in our community. 

Montgomery County considers a new policy for undocumented immigrants.

A 14-YEAR-OLD shot on a county bus. An elderly woman burned alive in her house. A waiter stabbed to death. These are some of the horrific murders allegedly committed by undocumented immigrants in Montgomery County in recent months.
County officials are considering whether to take a more aggressive role in determining whether criminal suspects are in the county illegally. This would be an appropriate response to the outbreak of violence, but any new policy must be carefully balanced.

Because some of the murder suspects already had criminal records, the spike in violence has brought scrutiny to the county's policy for holding undocumented immigrants. As reported by the Gazette newspaper's Sebastian Montes, law enforcement officials check for outstanding immigration warrants but don't actively seek out a suspect's immigration status. Federal agents have up to 72 hours to pick up suspected illegal immigrants; the county may release the suspects after that. Illegal immigrants also aren't prevented from posting bail.
 
One of the undocumented immigrants suspected of murder had been caught with marijuana in an elementary school six weeks before the slaying took place. Another was previously arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. Despite their immigration status, both were freed.
 
The county reasonably contends that it is up to federal agents to enforce immigration law. A strident policy, county officials argue, could foster distrust in the immigrant community and discourage informants from coming forward, not to mention cross the line into racial profiling.
But in response to the killings, law enforcement officials say they are looking to revise county policy to target perpetrators of violent crimes who may be in the country illegally.

Officers may be given latitude to look into the immigration status of a suspect who was born in another country, for example. The county is expected to announce any policy revisions by the end of the month. Montgomery authorities shouldn't waste tax dollars on a witch hunt for illegal immigrants. Giving police officers more authority while limiting their scope is the right approach.

Montgomery County is a safe-haven for illegal immigrants and are protected by Ike Leggett and the County Council.  They protect CASA of Maryland, an organization that openly welcomes, protects, and promotes illegal immigration.  This group also is hired by the Democrats for VOTER REGISTRATION.  When will the citizens of Montgomery County demand that elected officials protect them from illegals?

Police say the suspect killed his most recent victim, Mary Frances Havenstein, 63, of Bethesda.  Montgomery County Police on Friday charged Jose Garcia-Perlera, 33, of the 5800 block of 32nd Avenue, with one count of first-degree murder in Havenstein' s death. She was the only homicide in a series of five home invasions across the downcounty over the past year that targeted elderly victims, police said. Garcia-Perlera, reportedly an illegal immigrant who told police he was a self-employed electrician, was also charged with four counts of robbery and one count of armed robbery for the five home invasion robberies.  He faced similar burglary charges in New York eight years ago, police said.